All Star Game format stops short of overhauling process. The NBA unveiled sweeping changes to its All Star Game format on Tuesday, announcing that the 6. East team against a West team and that top vote getters will serve as captains to select the two squads. Presented with an opportunity to reimagine a lagging event, the league and its players unfortunately settled for creating a spectacle rather than overhauling its broken selection process. Why Read the fine print. The NBA didnt actually get rid of West All Stars and East All Stars, they just got rid of the West and East names on the jerseys. Indeed, the 2. 01. All Star selection process will be exactly the same as last year a fan, player and media vote will select five starters from each conference while a coaches vote will select the remaining seven reserves from each conference. Those 2. 4 players will then be thrown into a pool from which two captainsthe leading vote getter in the West and Eastwill get to pick their teams. Theres no doubt that the opportunity to watch, say, Le. Bron James and Stephen Curry pick their All Star teammates will be captivating. Will James take former running mate Kyrie Irving Will Curry snub rival Russell Westbrook But the process would be far more fulfilling if the team captains were selecting from the 2. Hatem Ben Arfa not included in PSGs UCL squad, training with the reserves. This is a list of episodes in the American animated television series Ben 10 Alien Force. Ben Roethlisberger and Maurkice Pouncey take the quarterbackcenter relationship to the next level, as the Steelers teammates are very close friends. All Star candidates regardless of their conference affiliation. The new pool setup could be useful for evening out the Sunday showcasegiven that the West has won six of the last seven All Star Gamesbut it still doesnt represent the absolute best the NBA has to offer because it doesnt reflect the vast, and growing, talent disparity between the two conferences. The right way to do this was simple and not much different from what the NBA settled on Allow the fans, players and media to select 1. If there wont even be an East or West team, why restrict voting to East or West players Under the NBAs new setup, the 2. All Star Game will go off in Los Angeles with an absurd collection of snubbed talent sitting at home. In general, West teams have outperformed East teams for more than a decade, and the busy 2. East All Stars Jimmy Butler, Paul George, Paul Millsap and Carmelo Anthony all moved to West teams, while only one West All Star, Gordon Hayward, went East. Theres no possible way to include all of the Wests deserving players under the current framework. Just take 1. 5 seconds to try to build a West team and look who gets left out. Possible West All Stars Stephen Curry, Russell Westbrook, James Harden, Kevin Durant, Kawhi Leonard, Anthony Davis, Jimmy Butler, Paul George, Karl Anthony Towns, Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, Klay Thompson. Possible West snubs Damian Lillard, De. Andre Jordan, Rudy Gobert, Paul Millsap, Mike Conley, Marc Gasol, Nikola Jokic, C. J. Mc. Collum, Carmelo Anthony, De. Ben 10 Game Setup' title='Ben 10 Game Setup' />Marcus Cousins, Dirk Nowitzki, La. Marcus Aldridge. Possible East All Stars Le. Bron James, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Kyrie Irving, De. Mar De. Rozan, John Wall, Kevin Love, Gordon Hayward, Kemba Walker, Kyle Lowry, Bradley Beal, Al Horford, Kristaps Porzingis. Anthony and Millsap may fall from being 2. East All Stars to outside the Wests top 2. Butler, a 2. 01. 7 East starter, could easily be a 2. West snub. A potential 2. East starter like De. Mar De. Rozan would almost certainly be snubbed entirely in the West. Potential 2. 01. 8 West snubs like Damian Lillard, Mike Conley and Rudy Gobert would all be near locks, if healthy, in the East. Meanwhile, the thin batch of possible East snubs includes the likes of Isaiah Thomas injured to start the year, Joel Embiid a strong bet to make the team if healthy and Goran Dragic before moving on to the less enticing likes of Hassan Whiteside, Otto Porter, Serge Ibaka, Andre Drummond, Reggie Jackson and others. The leagues new format should be evidence enough that it believes the talent disparity between the conferences is a serious issue, but consider Only 6 of the top 2. SIs Top 1. 00 NBA Players of 2. East. Only 7 of the top 2. Real Plus Minus are in the East. Fullshot Enterprise V9.5.1.3. Only 9 of the top 2. Player Efficiency Rating are in the East. Only 1. Win Shares are in the East. If there was a real, unfettered draft of 2. Del Taco Drivers Usb Microphone more. All Star Game, these East players would likely be in James, Antetokounmpo, Wall, Irving, Hayward, Lowry. Thats six. A healthy Thomas would be too and maybe one more would sneak in. Regardless, thats still far short of the 1. East players who will be sent to L. A. come February. Why is the NBA clinging to a selection process that props up weaker East candidates at the expense of West stars if those players wont even represent the East team If the league is willing to scrap a conference versus conference tradition that dates back to 1. Look, the All Star Games biggest problem in recent years is that everyone collectively decided to give up on even pretending to play defense. Theres probably no solution for that unless some sponsor decides to put up a huge cash prize. But the All Star Games second biggest problem has been that all of the stars arent invited and that numerous deserving players are systematically snubbed every year. The NBA had a great opportunity to solve that specific problem and reward its best players with an honor many of them covet. Instead, the league settled for a half measure that papers over the unfair selection process with a showy distraction.